Executive in charge of BBM leaves BlackBerry

Another BlackBerry executive has left the company. According to a BlackBerry spokesperson, Andrew Bocking, executive vice president in charge of BBM, "has made the decision to leave" the company. BBM is a separate unit at BlackBerry as was widely believed to be key to BlackBerry's comeback.

Mr. Bocking's departure was originally reported yesterday by BGR, but whether he left on his own or was asked to leave was in question. BlackBerry eventually had to release a statement confirming his departure.

BBM will now be headed up by John Sims, who joined BlackBerry in December to head its enterprise unit.